On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 16:25 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > How would this be different than what mainline does? When the lock is > released, it will wake up the other task. mainline has ticket locks, the rt-mutex stuff has equal priority lock stealing, waking up the blocked task will take so long our running loop will have re-acquired ->d_lock again before it even gets to trying. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html